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| Name: |
Carlos Juan Finlay | | Birth Date: |
December 3, 1833 | | Death Date: |
August 20, 1915 | | Place of Birth: |
Camagüey Province, Cuba | | Place of Death: |
Havana, Cuba | | Nationality: |
Cuban | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
physician, epidemiologist |
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Biography of Carlos Juan Finlay
1,000 words, approx. 3 pages
 Carlos Juan Finlay was a Cuban physician and biologist, who, in 1881, suggested that yellow fever, an acute febrile illness fatal to half its victims, was transmitted by mosquitoes. His theory, confirmed in 1900 by the American surgeon Walter Reed, led...
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Biography of Carlos Juan Finlay
397 words, approx. 1 pages
 The Cuban physician and epidemiologist Carlos Juan Finlay (1833-1915) discovered that certain mosquitoes transmit yellow fever. Carlos Juan Finlay was born in Camagüey Province on Dec. 3, 1833, of a Scottish father and a French mother. He spent...


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Carlos Juan Finlay Summary
714 words, approx. 2 pages 1833-1915 Cuban Physician, Epidemiologist and Public Health Reformer Although the American physician Walter Reed (1851-1902) is generally associated with the discovery of the means of transmission of yellow fever, it was the Cuban physician Carlos Juan...
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Finlay, Carlos J.
269 words, approx. 1 pages (born , Dec. 3, 1833, Puerto Príncipe, Cuba—died Aug. 20, 1915, Havana) Cuban epidemiologist who discovered that yellow fever is transmitted from infected to healthy humans by a mosquito. Although he published experimental evidence of this...
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Finlay, Carlos J(Uan)
100 words, approx. 1 pages (born Dec. 3, 1833, Puerto Príncipe, Cuba—died Aug. 20, 1915, Havana) Cuban epidemiologist. He is known for his discovery that yellow fever is transmitted by a mosquito. Though he published experimental evidence in 1886, his ideas were...
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Carlos Finlay Information
447 words, approx. 2 pages
 Carlos Juan Finlay (December 3 1833 – August 20 1915, Havana), was a Cuban physician and scientist. Finlay was born Juan Carlos Finlay in Puerto Principe, Cuba of French and Scottish descent. He changed his name to Carlos Juan Finlay later in his...



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Biography of Dr. Carlos Juan Finlay
09/01/2001: 525 words, approx. 2 pages Carlos Juan Finlay was born in Cuba on December 3, 1833. His physician father was a Scotsman who owned a coffee plantation; his mother was a native of France. At age 11, he went to Europe to study but had to return home on...
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Carlos Finlay and Yellow Fever: Triumph over Adversity
10/01/2005: 4,072 words, approx. 14 pages The eradication of yellow fever in Havana, Cuba, was achieved by a fruitful collaboration between American and Cuban physicians. Carlos Finlay, a Cuban physician who proposed the mosquito-vector theory in 1881, shared his ideas, his publications, and a sample of mosquito eggs with the...


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